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This game is very pretty on PC and runs like a dream. Playing with a Dualsense controller is nice. It's unfortunate that full haptics only works when you're wired up, but I can deal with it.

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Mostly people that aren't as tech savvy. For instance, they'd prefer one Comcast app that does everything instead of multiple apps to handle wireless versus Wi-Fi versus paying their bills. Apple only allows one primary category per app plus a single secondary function. That's why T-Mobile and other carriers have a dozen apps instead of one main app that can handle every need of their customers. Unfortunately, that then carries over to Android because making two sets of the same app is already a lot of work, but two sets of entirely different apps is a bridge too far.

Fine, these little guys go great with my Angus Beef Big Mac Gundam.

Apple's control only becomes a problem when it controls what's available on Android. How Apple’s war on super apps became the center of its antitrust fight - The Verge WWW.THEVERGE.COM Apple put restrictions on cloud streaming, and now the DOJ is fighting back. Apple feared that giving legitimacy to cloud streaming gaming apps wouldn't hurt users, but could convince users they could get away with buying cheaper hardware which includes Android. Same goes for super apps. Apple is doing what it can to stop the development of super apps on iOS because they know it would make switching over to Android easier. When half the market is cut off, few are going to invest in making these apps for Android and Android alone.

I do believe there is something to be said about toys and general use computers which, in the year 2024, absolutely includes smart phones and tablets. You aren't doing your banking on a Switch. You don't need a PS5 is be a functioning member of society, but you absolutely need a smart phone. Apple might not control the entire market, but the DOJ is claiming that they own enough of the market to push their weight around in a monopolistic manner. This is like California getting to choose emissions standards on cars that affect everyone else. Only, California is legally allowed to do that while Apple probably isn't.

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Looks like we're starting the spring season early. You don't normally see anime start popping up for another week or two, but we've got one videogame tie in that needs sorting out. Unfortunately, Toriyama didn't make it in time to see a wider audience enjoy his wildly under-appreciated Mad Max meets Dragon Ball short series. The first seven episodes are out on Hulu TODAY. The first 6 episodes of this new anime will recount the events as told in the 1999 manga. The seventh episode will begin a new arc Toriyama wrote specifically for this anime series. That arc will run for 7 episodes bringing the series to a total of 13 leading up to the release of the Sand Land game coming out April 26. Also coming out in April is Kaiju No.8... I've been reading the manga since the first chapter. This should do very good as anime, so here's hoping this adaptation is good. Who doesn't like stuff where folks are fighting kaiju while using kaiju parts to power their weapons and armor? Wait, is this actually another season of Black Butler? I had to look it up and sure enough, it's been a full decade since the last season... Speaking of anime that's a long time in the making, Fujiko Fujio is getting another new anime? You might not know the pair, but you've certainly at least heard or seen Doraemon at some point. It's been some 35 years since the last Time Patrol Bon anime. Now we've got a new season hitting Netflix in May... I am all for more Korean manhwa getting the anime treatment... Nerdy twig of a kid takes on all the bullies in town to rack up YouTube views. The first season of the manhwa was a ton of fun, so here's hoping this anime is too. For a moment, I thought we'd be seeing more manhwa getting animated, but nope, we've just got a manga sharing the same name of a wildly popular manhwa series that's still running. Let's blame an editor over at Kodansha for not Googling the name of their new manga. Either way, if you want more delinquents beating the shit out of each other, Wind Breaker will do that for you. What's the opposite of high school delinquents punching each other in the face? Some cute girls trying to form an anonymous musical group? Sure. If anything, Jellyfish Can't Swim at Night certainly has some pretty animation... Speaking of music, there's also Hi Dive's Whisper Me a Love Song. This one is more romance/drama, though... We've got to even out the world. Whisper Me a Love Song may be a rare lesbian romance anime, but you know what's even more rare? A gay romance anime, and we've got one coming up with Welcome Home...whose title Crunchyroll decided not to translate... Thinking about it, we aren't getting too many shoujo romance anime these days. We do have A Condition Call Love coming out next month... Let's not be ageist. Old people can love too in Grandpa and Grandma Turned Young Again streaming...who knows where... Am I missing any demographics? I guess elves deserve love in An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride... Fuck it, vampires are also allowed to love in Vampire Dormitory... Lot of romance and isekai anime this coming season. I'd link to all the isekai, but they've all got titles like... As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World... Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers... I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince So I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability... There should be something for everyone. Oh! CLAMP has done some work for a new anime on Netflix? I have a hard time turning down new stuff from them, so I am definitely checking this one out...

Last episode of Frieren is out later this week and is still rated as one of the best anime of all time. Honestly, that's pretty deserved. I love the world Frieren builds. The only thing I don't like is that the anime covers like 3/4 of the manga, so it'll be years before we can get another season of anime.

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The weekly churn can be pretty brutal. Eiichiro Oda may be famous for One Piece, but his real claim to game should be his unnatural ability to keep it's weekly chapter pace with barely any breaks. A lot of my RSI in this bunch, a lot of sleepless nights. I'm pretty sure Oda still sometimes sleeps at his desk while working on One Piece. An average mangaka's schedule is working on storyboards over the weekend, followed by meeting with editors for tweaks on Monday before spending the rest of the week to work on rough drafts, lining, filling, and final pass sometime around Friday before starting all over again. If you're lucky, maybe you get some time off on Friday. Mutsumi Inomata probably didn't work that crazy schedule, but she still did a lot and has been in the industry for decades. It'll be weird for be future Tales games to not feature her character designs.

Nope, the bot is pure bullshit here.

First thing I thought of was those transformers. Thanks. Nostalgia wave hit me and now I went and spent $20 on eBay to buy a few of them.

Hey, for some wild life hit me reason, I missed No More Heroes 3 on the Switch...but now it's on Game Pass, so that's what I'm playing. A ton of fun so far.

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What does "making more than enough money" even mean here? That Zeekerss should be happy he took less money home than he would have if there were actual real competition among store fronts? That's silly. He did more to deserve the money that game brought in than anything Valve contributed. This whole conversation is silly, though. I'll repeat myself. Gamers don't want competition in this space. They're happy with Steam and want nothing else. Epic can throw free money at an indie devs and, even here, you'll find folks upset that came with an exclusivity window instead of being happy for a monetary windfall for some small-time developer. I recall when they paid Ember Labs for Kena Bridge of Spirits and people were upset because they didn't want a second store front installed on their PCs.

The companies making record profits and then laying off a bunch of workers to squeeze their execs a larger bonus are the same ones Apple and Valve give sweetheart deals to where they don't charge their typical 30%. Nobody is talking about them.

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It's very unlikely Epic could do anything to move people off Steam. Gamers just need to be honest and admit that even if Epic brought EGS to feature parity with Steam they'd still choose Steam because that's where all their games and friends are. Like I said earlier, this is the same as rooting for AMD to get Nvidia and Intel to lower their prices. Gamers "want competition" only to maybe lower prices and convince their current champions to make better products.

If Valve could get away with it, they'd charge 60%. Of course I understand why they charge 30%. They're raking in money hand over fist. I'd love to double my salary for no additional effort. It's still bullshit for devs. I don't really care what Epic's interest is here. They only care about making money. I only care about the folks making the games I love and I'll do what I can to support them. If that means I buy their game on EGS or even itch.io or directly off their own webpage, that's where I'll go. I don't feel any allegiance to a store front when the important part is the games. The big publishers are a big shrug to me, but there are so many indie devs out there feeling the crunch just as badly as all these gaming companies firing people left and right. Why should anybody go to bat for Epic or Valve or Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft or Apple? They're all vultures, but at least the console guys provide more value to devs for their 30% than Valve does. Hell, even Apple provides more value to devs than Valve does; even if that value is artificially inflated due to Apple's overly draconian developer tools and agreements.

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Valve isn't a console manufacturer nor does Valve offer the same level of assistance to game developers Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do. There's a reason Valve makes more money per employee than just about any other tech company out there. In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM A well-oiled Steam machine. Either Valve is magic compared to Sony and Microsoft or they run wildly high margins thanks to their 30% cut. The only games company I know of that makes more money per employee than Valve is Nintendo and it is very much because they own the platform while also selling the largest volume of games for said platform. It's the biggest reason why people arguing Nintendo should put their games on PC store fronts like Valve's are crazy. No serious person is going to try to argue that Nintendo makes its off the party game sales, especially when this has been the case for Nintendo since way back on the Wii. Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman WWW.FT.COM